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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/19/2005 3:55:09 PM

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Well not only did I prove them to be totally wrong, I walked out of that hospital with a renewed sense of just exactly how precious every single moment of life is.

Good for you erin, and I'm so glad you are with us.

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/19/2005 3:55:10 PM

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And I absolutely, possitively HATE getting emails asking me if I want to enlarge my penis!!!!

Let's don't forget about the e-mails us guys get about how to enlarge our breasts...lol.

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/19/2005 4:57:23 PM

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Good for you erin, and I'm so glad you are with us.

So are we... that is one very special lady.

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/19/2005 5:37:20 PM

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MY PET PEEVES

*People sniffing instead of blowing there nose.

* 3 year olds with pacifiers.

**Hypocrites(oh dont get me started on that one)**

*Bigot personalitys

*Cracking your knuckles or any other body part. (dont crack mine either)

People who take pictures and the room is a mess!
Come on clean it up.
No one wants to see your dirty clothes scatered across the floor.
A bed that looks like it has never been made
Or A-1 and ketchup on the tables.
Not to mention the beer cans.
My advice or I should say my Plee make the bed!
pick up the clothes
put the ketchup back in the refrigerator
and recycle the beer cans

*People chewing with there mouth open.

*Guys who shave and leave hair in the sink.

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/19/2005 8:20:24 PM

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I used to deliver auto parts for a living and it radically changed how I drive. Now I'm kind of like the ex-smoker who preaches about the evils of smoking, lol. Poor toy has to listen to me criticize all the poor driving skills I see when we're out and about. Some of my favorite driving peeves:

Those who speed for short distances or in areas with lots of lights. They'll zoom by at top speed and then be waiting at the next light or we'll pass them as they slow to turn two blocks down the road. Wasted gas and dangerous to boot.

Folks who cruise for miles in the passing lane, even as traffic is forced to pass on the right. Pass and get over, will ya?

Tailgating. There's never an excuse for it. Back off.

The folks who jump into your lane just as you're about to pass them. Are they trying to get hit or are they just stupid?

I drove 150K miles in 2 1/2 years and I saw more accidents than I can recount, some of them fatal and one indelibly etched in my memory. I had the misfortune of being early on the scene of an accident where a car drove under the side of a turning tanker truck. The police verdict: car's driver was driving too fast for the foggy conditions. Guy must have been doing at least 60 in fog so thick you couldn't see the front of the hood. It's no wonder he didn't see the tanker pulling onto the road. He managed to squeeze his car under the truck all the way to the back doors. Rain, snow and fog all affect the way a vehicle handles. A 4x4 may drive great in slush but it still won't stop on a dime if someone fishtails in front of you.

*sigh* Ok, I feel better

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/19/2005 10:17:56 PM

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Pet peeves for me?

1. Bumper riders. Why the hell do you need to drive 2ft behind me? I always find it funny when a car passes me 20 miles faster than me but we both end up at the same place at the same time because of Red Lights, Slower cars in front of us, and having to stop for Gas.

I'm a layed back kinda guy. Working in the medical field has made me pretty tolerant of most ppl. But I still don't like ppl who try and beat me up and throw shit at me. I've also have read some really stupid MD orders in my time. One being on a medical floor patient "intubate prn"

The only real type of person that I don't like is the "They think they know it all". Luckily I've read a book titled "How to deal with the 10 most annoying ppl" It's a very nice book endeed.

Another peeve of mine are movies with dumb endings. The movie starts out great. Wonderful climaxes through the plot line and such and then all of a sudden you can tell when the writters were running out of ideas. Blade 3, the Haunting, the Matrix Reloaded come to mind.

In Blade 3, come one. First, Blade already has the cure to make him completly human from the first movie. Secondly, how the hell does Silver Nitrate in the air and an Air Born Virus going to hurt a vampire? They don't breath air?

There are a few other things that don't float my boat but I don't want to turn this into a big ramble which happens to be most ppl's pet peeves.

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/19/2005 10:40:58 PM

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Three year olds with pacifiers are nothing. My little half sister proudly announced, from when she was about three and a half, that she'd stop using the pacifier once she was five. She did, thankfully. And she wasn't in school then, she started school the next summer (one of the younger kids in her class)

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/20/2005 12:41:23 AM

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I've also have read some really stupid MD orders in my time. One being on a medical floor patient "intubate prn"

LOL! Well at least he left you some discretion.

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/20/2005 4:29:48 AM

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Ok, since we are talking about drivers here....

Has it changed in the last decade? Are the four way flashers no longer considered emergency flashers"? Do the people out there understand how hard it is to judge the distance of a vehicle using their flashers in a thick fog???? Where is the emergency there?? I have seen people drive for miles with their flashers on just cuz the street is wet! How do I know there isn't a legit emergency you ask??? Well, unless there is emergency services offered at the local grocery then I would have to guess it was due to wet streets. I've even heard a cop tell people if the weather is bad (rain, snow, fog... you know) to turn on their flashers..... It's just hard to tell if they are moving or pulled over from a distance... makes me crazy.

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/20/2005 6:26:19 AM

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Quote <People that try to walk in when we are trying to get everyone out so that we can close. I mean come on, we open at 7 and we are open until 10, you can't tell me you don't have some time in that time period to stop in.>

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Quote <I used to work retail... what I wanted more then anything was to show up at the work places of some of those inconsiderate people and make it impossible for them to go home after they have put in their eight hours as well....!! > Jewel >

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Oh boy can I related, I worked in retail, mostly boutiques, for over 10 years. What a frigin nightmare.
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omg, did someone actual say that in front of your face? I probably would have bust out laughing at the woman's rudeness. That's just priceless.

One of my bigger pet peeves is having to constantly come across self-righteous, all knowing, overly judgemental full of bravado types that always spew nonsense claiming to be better than others because they don't do this or that. So very annoying.

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/20/2005 7:00:33 AM

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People who seem to think that "we're sold out" means "I don't WANT to sell you any" not "i don't have any to sell."

Or then they ask "can you just check? I'm sure you have some in the back." Come on, how big of a space do you think the stockroom is? We don't have a whole other store back there. And guess what, I already checked for the other idiot that also came in on the last day of the sale and I can confidently say that we have none.

Which brings me to another peeve.
If a sale is going on for a week and you come in on day 7 for a hot item do not expect there to be any left. There are always people that come in on the last day and want all the most popular items in the ad.

Or, the people that come in looking for an item that we don't have and then when they are told that we don't have it say "well, it's in the ad, you should have it." Oh, I'm sorry, let me run around and pull one out of my ass for you.....The ads were printed 6 months ago in another state, you dolt. We have no control over what is printed or if the warehouse (also in another state) decides to send us the product.

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People who think I'm an idiot because I work retail or talk loudly to their children about how they should go to college so they never have to have a "pathetic job like that girll."

I have had that happen.
I always say something like "Oh, this isn't my only job" and I go through all my other jobs and tell them about what I am studying in school. Usually this person is wearing a bus driver uniform (believe it or not, out of the 5 or 6 times this has happened all but one was wearing a bus driver uniform) and then finish it off with "and, what is it that you do?"
Have gotten a "talking to" from the managers after those.......

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/20/2005 7:05:20 AM

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Have gotten a "talking to" from the managers after those.......

Siamsa, you need to leave the trolls alone. Tsk, tsk.

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/20/2005 7:16:48 AM

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hehe, I guess it's good to know that I don't just do it on the boards huh? I do it in real life too

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/20/2005 8:38:58 AM

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Or then they ask "can you just check? I'm sure you have some in the back." Come on, how big of a space do you think the stockroom is?

Since we remodled our store, we no longer have backstock, so what you see is what you get. People refuse to believe this!!

"What do you -mean- you don't have backstock? EVERYONE has backstock!"

Granted, it was a stupid choice on the store's part, but it's true.

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Or, the people that come in looking for an item that we don't have and then when they are told that we don't have it say "well, it's in the ad, you should have it." Oh, I'm sorry, let me run around and pull one out of my ass for you.....The ads were printed 6 months ago in another state, you dolt. We have no control over what is printed or if the warehouse (also in another state) decides to send us the product.

Lord, tell me about it. It's less of a problem at the bookstore I'm at now, but when I worked at Petco, we ran into this all the time. It was a -small- store, so our stock was minimal and backstock tiny.

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I have had that happen.
I always say something like "Oh, this isn't my only job" and I go through all my other jobs and tell them about what I am studying in school. Usually this person is wearing a bus driver uniform (believe it or not, out of the 5 or 6 times this has happened all but one was wearing a bus driver uniform) and then finish it off with "and, what is it that you do?"
Have gotten a "talking to" from the managers after those.......

Good for you!!!
:)

I almost always get it from obviously VERY upper class people.

My stock answer is "well, it's a great way to put yourself through grad school if your parents can't afford to pay it for you."

Speaking of work-related pet peeves.
DO NOT
1. Answer your cell phone while I am helping you/ringing you up. I was looking up a book for someone yesterday, his cell phone rang, he picked it up, leaving me standing there with the search half done, totally confused as to what he actually wanted me to do. I tried to ask him over the conversation, he ignored me, so I walked away. He actually sought out a manager to complain aobut me b/c I ignored him.
2. Come up to the register while on the phone. I wil do the most basic "ring you up and give you bag" transaction I can. It is -not- my fault if I sell you a book you wanted to return. You didn't tell me to return it. You talked to your friend on the phone.

GRRR

I work in retail. I'm still a person.

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/20/2005 8:51:47 AM

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Speaking of work-related pet peeves.
DO NOT
1. Answer your cell phone while I am helping you/ringing you up. I was looking up a book for someone yesterday, his cell phone rang, he picked it up, leaving me standing there with the search half done, totally confused as to what he actually wanted me to do. I tried to ask him over the conversation, he ignored me, so I walked away. He actually sought out a manager to complain aobut me b/c I ignored him.
2. Come up to the register while on the phone. I wil do the most basic "ring you up and give you bag" transaction I can. It is -not- my fault if I sell you a book you wanted to return. You didn't tell me to return it. You talked to your friend on the phone.

I always just talk over their conversation and act as though they answer me even if they don't

"Hi, did you find everything you needed today? That's great. Oh, I'm doing fine, thanks for asking. Your total is $11.43, thank you. Would you like a bag for that? Wonderful, have a great day. Thank you, I will"

I have actually gotten shushed for that, but I told them if they hadn't been so rude as to be on the phone in the first place I wouldn't have inturupted their conversation.

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/20/2005 8:32:32 PM

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Folks who cruise for miles in the passing lane, even as traffic is forced to pass on the right. Pass and get over, will ya?

Oh yeah, I forgot about that one...and to add to that...where the long up hill road splits into two lanes with a sign "Keep right except to pass"..of course that must not apply to the guy with the huge boat behind the little minivan going 25 mph...lol. You would think after about 10 people pass this one on the right, they would get the idea.

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/20/2005 10:26:22 PM

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People who bitch about govt, but don't vote.

People who vote without understanding the issues..

People who are hypocrites.

People who carry on thier cell phone conversations so all can hear.

Kids who smack gum.

Black Lip liner

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/20/2005 11:08:31 PM

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Ms. Eden.

Hey There Ms Eden,
Some darker people need darker lip liner to define the lips; light brown and reds just look bad on some of us.

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/21/2005 2:22:31 AM

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Pervers, on the other hand it's realy rude when the cleark who is posta ring you up takeas a call. At stitchery station one time she was cutting out material for me and helping me and her buisnes partner calls from the road cause she's out selling things. Now I understand being the only one at the store right then, but The sales lady stops helping me and stands yacking on the phone for 20 mins while I stand there waiting to check out. I kept trying not to sigh cause my legs was getting tired and stuff. I was pretty impatient by time she got off the phone.

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RE: Real life Pet Peeves - 7/24/2005 8:39:43 AM

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Ok... here's a few from your friends in the hospitality industry...

If we say we are sold out, we are sold out, NO, we did not save that mysterious Room of Requirement (HP fans) for you, but maybe i can strap on my handy tool belt and build a new wing just for you.

No, you cannot find a lower rate at my hotel anywhere, and by threatening me that you are going to go online and look, only makes me scoff and laugh at you when I hang up the phone. Same goes for threatening to go elsewhere to stay, I'll do a happy dance, because that says you are a pain in the butt anyway, and would have annoyed me and my employees to no end.

Yes, i recognize that you are part of the frequency program, and you have been so for a long time since you've reached the top tier, but why oh why, do you still think that this entitles you to a discount all of a sudden?

Please hang up your cell phone when i'm checking you in, since you are just going to have to call down to the desk in 15 minutes and ask me what channel HBO is on, since you weren't paying attention when I told you earlier.

No, I will not guarantee you a first floor room. I'm sorry you are older, but honestly, the side door is closest to the elevators, you'll have to walk less if you are on another floor.

Don't leave your do not disturb sign on til 5pm and then expect someone to clean your room... at that point you are out of luck, as housekeeping has left, and i'm not gonna do it and leave the front desk empty.

Quite possibly the worse is ..... PLEASE, if you are visiting town for a religious function, don't be a complete and total b*tch to the hoteliers, they know why you are there. Ever wonder why people hate hypocrites??... Look in the mirror. Personally i'd prefer the bikers and the racers, of all the leisure travelers... the most courteous and conscientious

i love my job, i love my job, i love my job *winks*...LOL

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